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Date of source: Friday, December 3, 1999
The Coptic church assigned Bishop Benjamin of Minufia to receive the medallion of honor for Pope Kyrollos the Sixth [posthumously, the pope past away in 1971]. The bishop says that the relations between Christians and Moslems in Minufia are very special, to such an extent that some Copts build...
Date of source: Friday, December 3, 1999
The author responds to a controversial article of Islamic thinker Fahmy Howeidy, titled "The voice of the Coptic church". Howeidy mentioned that he is sorry for the behavior of Copts abroad because they meet with some Jewish extremists in a mutual attempt of which they may or may not know its...
Date of source: Saturday, November 6, 1999
Since the Nasserist Party was established in 1992, it has placed the issue of national unity among its priorities. This is obvious in the party’s programs and its activities. This is quite natural because if the Nasserist Party would not do this, the party’s association with the name of Gamal Abd...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 19, 1999
A distinction has to be made between "a numerical minority" and "a minority in the political, social and economic sense of the word". Notwithstanding, the fact that Christians are small in number does not make inroads at all into being treated on a par with all other Egyptians in terms of politics...
Date of source: Friday, October 8, 1999
[Due to personal problems of the translator, this text and the following of October 19 have been handed in only yesterday. We apologize for the delay in presenting this article]. The author claims the US Report on Religious Freedom attempts to ignite strife between Muslims and Copts along...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 26, 1999
Dr. Christiaan van Nispen s.j. spoke on Thursday November 3, 1999 in the Maadi Community Church in Cairo, Egypt about Muslim-Christian relations in Egypt. He spoke of Coptic Christians as an integral part of Egyptian society and criticized foreign reporting on Christians in Egypt.
Date of source: Friday, October 29, 1999
A Coptic lawyer filed a lawsuit against sheikh Atya Shaker, the former chairman of the fatwa committee in the Azhar because, the lawyer says, the sheikh insulted Copts and called them apostates in a TV Program "fatwas and commands".
Date of source: Monday, November 1, 1999
Pain and suffering initially brought Mervat, a Christian, and Sahar, a Muslim, together and they later became best friends.
Date of source: Friday, October 22, 1999
Dr. William Soliman Qilada represents the school of Egyptian nationalism. He worked hard to find out the events in Egypt’s history that prove the union between Christians and Muslims.
Date of source: Monday, October 25, 1999
There is a new wave of attacks in the form of advertisements in western media from emigrant Copts. For the thousandth time, emigrant Copts continue their cheap trials to destroy the national unity by claiming that Egypt has become a place for sectarianism and that having a tattoo of a cross or...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.